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INESC TEC Summer School brings dozens of young people to Porto
INESC TEC was responsible for organising the second edition of the VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence (visum) Summer School, a summer school in artificial intelligence and computer vision.
INESC TEC has already submitted more than 50 projects to Horizon 2020
In the first semester of 2014, INESC TEC submitted over 50 proposals to Horizon 2020 – the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The applications were submitted in different areas, with an emphasis on the following calls: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with 15 projects submitted; Factories of the Future (FoF), with seven applications; Low Carbon Energy (LCE), with five proposals; Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials and Production (NMP) and Energy Efficiency (EE), both with three projects submitted.
Infrastructures led by INESC TEC chosen for FCT’s national roadmap
Five infrastructures in which INESC TEC participates have been chosen (after previous evaluation and hearing) to integrate the National Roadmap of Research Infrastructures of Strategic Interest for 2014-2020 (RNIE) of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Two of these infrastructures are led by INESC TEC: the Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles Laboratory (SGEVL) and the TEC4SEA, a modular Platform for researching, testing and validating technologies to support a sustainable economy for the Sea.
INESC TEC participates in Robotics Exercises 2014
Between 30 June and 4 July, INESC TEC participated in the REX2014 - Robotics Exercises, which took place at the Lisbon Naval Base (Alfeite/Almada). As in previous years, the goal with the initiative was to test and demonstrate robotic (and related areas) technologies for operations in aquatic environments in the areas of defence, security, search and rescue, maritime surveillance or monitoring.
INESC TEC director invited for the scientific council of IRESEN
Vladimiro Miranda, director of INESC TEC, has been invited to integrate the scientific council of IRESEN - Institut de Recherche en Energie Solaire et Energies Nouvelles, an agency of the Moroccan Ministry of Energy, Mining, Water and Environment, which started collaborating with INESC TEC last year, more specifically in project SECRETS (Sustainable Energy Clusters REalized Through Smart Grids).
CISTER/INESC TEC leads European project on predictable parallel programming in many-core processors
Assessing and maintaining the performance and predictability of many-core processors (with dozens of cores) is the purpose of project P-SOCRATES (Parallel SOftware framework for time-CRitical mAny-core sysTEmS), a European project led by the Research Centre in Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems (CISTER), an associate unit of INESC TEC. The first stage of the project, which started in October 2013, is now over, and the project received a positive evaluation in the first review meeting, which took place on 15 May in Barcelona, Spain.
HASLab/INESC TEC researcher wins IBM Portugal scientific award
Alexandre Madeira, a researcher at INESC TEC’s High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), has won the 2013 IBM Portugal Scientific Award, with the project “Hibridização de Lógicas: uma abordagem genérica à reconfigurabilidade de software” (in English: Hybrid logic – a generic approach to software reconfigurability).
INESC TEC researcher co-edits book on soft computing
Jorge Freire de Sousa, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management, is co-editor of the scientific book Computer-based Modelling and Optimization in Transportation, which gathers recent research on the use of soft computing in transportation and logistics.
Federal University of Technology of Paraná joins the INESC Brazil network
The Federal University of Technology of Paraná (UTFPR) is the most recent Brazilian University to join the INESC Brazil network, a cooperation network managed by INESC R&D Brazil.
INESC TEC signs programme-contract with EDP
INESC TEC is the partner of the Portuguese science system chosen by Energias de Portugal (EDP) to develop science and technology capable of being explored commercially by all companies in the EDP Group. The programme-contract signed between the Associate Laboratory and the EDP Group at INESC TEC on 4 June will finance joint research projects, over the next three years, to originate new products and services for the company.
INESC TEC researchers awarded in Chemistry conference
The poster “MIPs-based e-tongue for the detection of quaternary ammonium salts”, created by João Paulo Barbosa, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP)*, has recently received an Honourable Mention. The poster was presented at the 4th Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting (4th PYCheM), which took place in Coimbra between 29 April and 1 May.
INESC TEC researcher joins the European platform TPWind
Ricardo Bessa, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES)*, was selected to join the European Wind Energy Technology Platform (TPWind), more specifically the work group on the integration of wind power into the power system (WG3: Grid Integration).
Project by INESC TEC researcher is finalist in competition for innovative ideas
Project PRAXIS – European Center for Project/Internship Excellence, coordinated by Nuno Escudeiro, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD), is one of the finalists of the competition The Next Big Idea: Santander Special Edition for Universities, which awards the best ideas created in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions. The project was one of five ideas selected during the RoadShow at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP) and is one of the best 30 ideas qualified for the semi-finals, which will take place next month.
INESC TEC starts project “Mailing Optimization”
In May, INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI)* kicked-off project “Mailing Optimization” for SONAE MC, a food retailer from the Sonae Group.
INESC TEC co-organises and participates in National Robotics Festival
INESC TEC participated in the IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, which took place between 14 and 15 May at the Portuguese city of Espinho, during the 14th edition of the National Robotics Festival.
PhD dissertations by INESCTEC awarded by the Portuguese Optics and Photonics Society
The researchers Susana Silva and Raquel Queirós were awarded by the Portuguese Optics and Photonics Society with a best PhD thesis and an honourable mention, respectively, for their doctoral studies in Physics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP). The researchers concluded their doctoral studies in 2013 while doing research at INESC TEC’s Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP)*.
PhD dissertations by INESCTEC awarded by the Portuguese Optics and Photonics Society
The researchers Susana Silva and Raquel Queirós were awarded by the Portuguese Optics and Photonics Society with a best PhD thesis and an honourable mention, respectively, for their doctoral studies in Physics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP). The researchers concluded their doctoral studies in 2013 while doing research at INESC TEC’s Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP)*.
INESC TEC helps implement innovative assembly line
INESC TEC is part of the Production Technologies Cluster (PRODUTECH), which demonstrated the new assembly line of the company ADIRA, the ADIRA Production System. The entire manufacturing system was designed and implemented with innovative technology, including software to optimise production and autonomous vehicles that supply each work station with the materials necessary to assemble customised orders. INESC TEC’s Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) and Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CROB)* developed almost the entire manufacturing system.
INESC TEC and EDP will formalise R&D partnership
INESC TEC and the EDP (Portuguese energy provider) will be signing a programme contract, formalising a partnership for the next three years, where the goal is to develop new solutions and increase technological competitiveness of the EDP both in Portugal and in international markets. The document to support R&D collaboration will be signed on 4 June, in Porto, Portugal.
EU wants to use drones to monitor maritime borders
Project SUNNY gathers 18 companies and research labs from different member states. For 42 months, the partners will be testing networks and sensors that will be used by unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor maritime borders.
